'APFED Awards
for Good Practices'APFED launched its new international environment
award

January 20, 2006

The Asia-Pacific Forum for Environment and Development (APFED)
Phase II (Chairman: Yoriko Kawaguchi, former Minister of the
Environment / former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Japan) has
launched its new international environment award, 'the APFED
Awards for Good Practices,' which will be given to organisations
that have made outstanding achievements in the promotion of
socially-equitable and sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific
region.

The awards programme covers all the environmental fields, including
climate change, air, forestry, freshwater, biodiversity, together
with cross-sectoral issues, such as governance, technology,
information, and capacity building. The selection criteria contains
various factors such as outstanding environmental improvement
or unique/innovative methods.

The applications that satisfy the eligibility requirements and
qualify by means of a peer-review will be registered in the
APFED database. After a comprehensive evaluation process,
winners will be presented with monetary awards. These awards
are the Gold Prize (1x USD 20,000), the Silver Prizes (2x USD
7,000) and the Incentive Prizes (5x USD 2,000).

The awards programme aims to not only honour the winners, but
to also present and share the lessons learned and knowledge
gained for sustainable development in the region through the
continual updating of the database, which is open to the public.
The prizes will be presented in the summer of 2006. The deadline
for applications is 31 March 2006.